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United Planet fosters cross-cultural understanding and supports communities in need in order to unite the world in a community beyond borders.
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United Planet (UP) is a leading international, educational, humanitarian, and peace-building, non-profit organization with members and volunteers in over 150 countries. United Planet offers a creative and diverse range of programs to unite a diverse world. Our key programs include: • United Planet Quests: Provide cross-cultural volunteer opportunities for people from different countries and cultures to perform meaningful community service work together, while sharing and learning cultures and experiencing different parts of their own country and the world. Quests are offered in 50 countries for 1-52 weeks. Volunteers participate as individuals or in groups either internationally or within their own country. • Cultural Awareness Project: Offers the opportunity for people from different cultures and countries to share about their cultures and countries within their local communities and while overseas in order to build respect and appreciation cultural diversity, while fostering friendship and understanding. • Special Projects: Provides the opportunity for United Planet to work together with local NGOs, organizations, and foundations to develop special projects to benefit the local community. As part of this effort, United Planet can provide skilled and general volunteers, such as professional English teachers, entrepreneurs, and field specialists, to assist in the development of sustainable projects to achieve mutual goals with partner organizations. • United Planet Ambassador Clubs: Empowers people of all ages, especially the young, to become catalysts for change by giving them the tools to create and lead their own United Planet clubs and pursue programs consistent with the United Planet mission. By fostering global knowledge and cultural understanding, futures leaders will become empowered to become responsible future caretakers. • Online Programs: Creates an unprecedented opportunity to develop a global network to connect people from every country on earth to facilitate the sharing of knowledge, cultural heritage, and global issues, while encouraging the generation of innovative solutions and international cooperation on a range of essential issues shared by all humanity. • United Planet Day: Brings together diverse populations within the local community to both share and celebrate their own cultural differences in order to foster understanding, friendship, and cooperation. United Planet Day falls on the Autumn Equinox- a day on which the sun shines equally on all people on Earth. |
The April issue of our eNewsletter is now online! Follow this link to read about a United Planet volunteer in Nigeria, program developments, and much more! To sign up for the monthly e-newsletter, simply send an email to newsletter@unitedplanet.org or send me a message.
